Discover Education Streaming (UnitedStreaming)

Presenter: Vicki Reed, CFF Technology Coach, HHS Technology Specialist

School District: Hempfield

Email: vicki_reed@hempfieldsd.org

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United Streaming has a new name, it is now Discovery Education Streaming (DE streaming!?!?)


1. A good place to start is Discovery Education Homepage
  • Here you can learn about several features that Discovery Education provides for teachers.
  1. Teacher login (varies by IU)
    1. all IU 12 schools here today are covered, see Sue Sheffer if you need contact information
    2. most schools in IU 15 do subscribe
    3. IU 13 provides subscriptions for entire IU based on media net account number see your media/librarian for info
  2. Student login provided by IU 13- IU12 and 15 should check with their school rep to see if they have access to student accounts

2. What kind of content is in Discovery Education streaming?
Interactive Atlas
  1. Full videos
    1. just like the old days- show a full length feature
  2. Video segments
    1. many of the full length features have been divided into segments from 30 seconds to several minutes.
  3. Images
  4. Articles
  5. Audio
  6. Audio: Songs
  7. Audio: Sound effects
  8. Speeches
  9. Quizzes
  10. Events
  11. Lesson Plans
  12. Clip art

3. Teacher Center
  1. Assignment builder
  2. Calendar
  3. Discovery Atlas Interactive map
  4. Lesson Plan Library
  5. Discovery Educators Network (DEN)
  6. Quiz builder
  7. Writing Prompt builder

4. How do you find and organize this everything that is there?
  1. My Content
  2. School Content

5. Professional Development
  1. Teaching tips
  2. Trainers toolkit
  3. Discovery Educators Network
  4. Tech talk
  5. Best practices
  6. Interactive training
  7. Project demonstrations
  8. Courses for credit